Electrical vaporizer



Dec. 19, 1933. J. ROBINSON ELECTRICAL VAPORIZER Original Filed May 28, 1927 I'llll ll'llIl ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 19, 1933 l 1,939,921 ELECTRICAL VAPORIZER Joseph Robinson, New York, N. Y.

Application May 28, 1927, Serial No. 195,064 Renewed May 6, 1933 4 Claims.

My invention relates toelectrical Vaporizers of the hand type for treating colds and other head aliiictions, and among the objects is to provide I a device of this character that can be perma- 5 nently supported from the wall of a room for the convenient use of the members of a family, and without the likelihood of breakage when used by children. The construction of my invention is such that the vapors generated are kept wann or a hot on their way out of the chamber or container in which they are produced. A modification of the supporting means of my improvement produces a stand with which my improved vaporizer may be set on a table or similar object for con- .venient use. Both forms of the supporting means illustrated make unnecessary special provision against my invention becoming too hot to comfortably handle;

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a side elevation.

Figure 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional view, and

Figure 3 illustrates a modification of the supporting means of myinvention.

In carrying my invention into eifect'I provide an elongated barrel or container 4 having atits upper and lower end threads or other securing means, and carrying also a suitable'lug or support 5. The container is preferably made of glass and the lug 5 is preferably integral with the container. I support the container'vertically from a wall by a suitable bracket 6 to which the lug or supports 5 are attached by the bolts 7. At one side the bracket is provided with projec-V tions which form a seat 8 for the nozzle 9 of my invention. To the lower end of the container 4 I suitably secure, as by means of the threads or the other securing means aforesaid, a satisfactory base 10, which has fluid tight engagement with the container. The base 10 carries, in a fluid tight manner, atube 11, which extends from within the base upwardly into the container 4. Within the tube 11 I mount a suitable resistance coil 12, such as shown and described in my copending application serial number 188,559, flied May 3, 1927, which has matured into Patent No. 1,775,947, issued September 16,1930, for improvements in electrical Vaporizers. Through the medium of suitable terminals 14 this coil is con- 50 nected to the electric cord 15, the connection being protected by a cap 16 threadingly connected to the base 10. On the upper end of the container 4 I mount a suitable cap 17, as by means of threads or otherwise. Passing through this cap, and swlvelly mounted therein, I provide a hollow goose-neck 18 secured in place by a nut 19. The upper end of the tube 11 terminates in a slim projection or neck 20 which extends upwardly in the hollow goose-neck 18. As the extension 20 is hot when my invention is in use it keeps the vapors generated at a desired temperature as they pass upwardly through the gooseneck 18, and this extension, and the hollow lower end of the goose-neck, may be said to form a supplemental heating chamber for the vapors. I mount on the goose-neck a suitable rubber tube or extension member 21 carrying at its free end the aforesaid nozzle 9.

In operation, the container 4 of my invention N is filled to the desired extent with any compound Q or medicament which it is desired to use, and the electric current is tumedon. The heating element, comprising the members 11, 14 and 20, heats the compound and generates the desired vapors. The nozzle 9 is placed in the nasalpassage, and by inhalation the vapors are lifted upwardly out of the container 4 through the gooseneck 18 and tube 21. During this act, air currents enter the vents 22 and circulate downwardly along the goose-neck 18 and thence upwardly there- 33 through, carrying with them the vapors, the extension 20 on the tube 11 serving to keep the vapors at an effective temperature on their way into the tube 21. The extension 20 may be said to heat the chamber which the hollow lower end of the 5 .1: goose-neck 18 forms.

I have shown in Figure 3 a suitable convenient form of portable stand 23 to which my invention may be secured by means of the aforesaid lugs 5 and bolts 7, although of course it may be other- L wise secured thereto, and to the bracket 6, if desired.

What I claim is: r

1. A device for generating vapors for inhalation, comprising in combination, a container for containing a compound, a vapor conducting tube having a supplemental heating chamber, spaced from the walls of the container and an electrical heating element, including a tube which extends into said container into direct contactwith said compound for generating the vapors, said heating element being provided with means which extends into said supplemental chamber and heats the chamber.

2. A vaporizer appliance comprising a tubular container, a closure member for one end thereof, a heating element extending longitudinally within the container from the closure member,

a cap member for the other end of the container, said cap member having passage entering the container, a tubular connector piece having swivel connection with the cap, an air heating extension establishing communication with the container, and a nozzle member connected with the connector piece. r

3. A vaporizer appliance comprising a tubular container, a closure member for one end thereof, a heating 9 element extending longitudinally of the container from the closure member, a cap member for the other end of the container, and

a tubular connector piece having an'extension entering the container in spacedrelation to the walls thereof into which the heating element extends.

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